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4141 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 139.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… , let Jehovah forgive thy servant in this matter.”This seems implied in the terms used. The argument is, however, only one of inference. We infer from the mention …
4142 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 141.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… “As Jehovah liveth,” with which Elisha prefaced his persistent refusal to receive aught of Naaman ( ver. 16 ), and the same phrase in the mouth of Gehazi, as he resolved …
4143 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 142.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… the Jehovah Whom he had erst invoked, and before Whom Elisha stood, was the living and the true God. Taking up the very words of Gehazi, “Thy servant did not go,” Elisha …
4144 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 144.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah, received meet punishment, so would they who clung to the prophet in faith and with faithfulness experience the deliverance of God, and this, even …
4145 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 146.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to Jehovah, it is evident that the religious state of the people, ripening for a judgment which history has shown to be irrevocable, would render necessary …
4146 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 152.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… otherwise; Jehovah had not brought these blinded men there as His own captives to give the king of Israel an easy and a cruel triumph; nay, the whole moral purpose …
4147 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 153.3 (Alfred Edersheim)
… was taken, and with it the ultimate fate of Israelf decided. Active hostility to the prophet as God’s representative and to the worship of Jehovah had …
4148 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 155.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… felt Jehovah alone could give help, perhaps that he had some dim expectation of it, but that the LORD withheld from sending it for some reason for which neither …
4149 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 157.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… from Jehovah, why should I wait [hope] any longer?” were spoken by the king as he entered the presence of Elisha. They are characteristic of his state of mind. It …
4150 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 158.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah with him, could have secured credence for them. And is it not always so, whenever any real need of ours is brought face to face with a promise of God …
4151 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 164.4 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah, whether he would recover from his sickness. After the manner of the time, Hazael went to meet the prophet with a present. We are not to understand …
4152 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 165.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… days Jehovah began to cut Israel short; and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel,“—a smiting which included the loss of the entire territory east of …
4153 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 167.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… to Jehovah in the land.On the somewhat complicated and difficult chronology of this period, comp. the Appendix at the end of this Volume.
4154 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 168.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah” (comp. 2 Chronicles 21:6 ). That notice explains alike the history of the reign of Jehoram and the hastening ruin of Judah. Nor can it have been without …
4155 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 172.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… Elijah, Jehovah would smite Jehoram in his people, his children, his wives, and all his substance. For even this more public calamity had a personal character …
4156 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 172.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… that Jehovah was only a national deity, who was angry with those who forsook His service; but that the new deity, Baal, who had proved so mighty a god to the surrounding …
4157 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 175.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… -achaz, “Jehovah seizes” or “holds,” Achaz-jah, “seizes” or “holds Jehovah.” We are unwilling to hazard any speculation why the name should have been thus transposed …
4158 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 177.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of “Jehovah, God of Israel,” and on behalf of Israel—, viewed as “the people of Jehovah” ( 2 Kings 9:6 ). This emphatic introduction of Jehovah marked the character of …
4159 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 179.2 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah, God of Israel, with all his heart; he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin” ( 2 Kings 10:31 ).
4160 Bible History Old Testament Vol. 6, p. 180.1 (Alfred Edersheim)
… of Jehovah,” in ver. 6 .